How to use contents from excel file in a Combobox (dropbox) in VB.NET ??

**Abhilash007** · May 8th, 2007, 03:40 AM

HI!

There is one thing i wanted to know.. that is if i have a dropbox (Combobox) in a windows form.. and i want the contents in the dropbox to be taken from a microsoft excel file. how do i do that.

Wad i want is.. i have a list of names in a excel file and i want the dropbox to have this list of names as options for the user to choose one from.

Please advise.

cheers
Abhilash

**Siddharth Rout** · May 8th, 2007, 03:55 AM

My one of the fav links :-)

This will clear all the concepts

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...ffice.11).aspx

Hope this helps...

**Abhilash007** · May 14th, 2007, 02:21 AM

Hey Sid!
the link did help clear some doubts.. but there was no mention of dropboxes or how to configuer them... i still havent been able to find a solution to my problem...

Please Advise

cheers
Abhilash

**Abhilash007** · May 15th, 2007, 10:17 PM

Hey guys..

I am in real need of some help with this project.. please help me out.. i just am not able to figure out how to do this...

cheers
Abhilash

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